Certified Structured Settlement Consultant is a professional designation offered by the National Structured Settlements Trade Association to its members through the Executive program at the University of Notre Dame since 1994. It DOES NOT involve matriculation at the University of Notre Dame. The pr...

Evidence continues to mount that a segment of the structured settlement industry, led by former NSSTA Executive Director Patrick Hindert IS teaming up with the cash now pushers. First, Patrick Hindert has long yakked that the growth of the structured settlement industry is through the factoring indu...

What is the structured settlement credo? asks Patrick Hindert with the word "credo" linked to this Wikipedia definition: The credo (Latin for "I Believe"; pronounced [ˈkɾe�d̪o�] ) is a statement of religious belief, such as the Apostles' Creed (or, less often, another creed, such as the Nicene ...

Structured settlement broker and NSSTA member Judson "Jack" Caddy, Jr. attended the JG Wentworth conference on June 17, 2008. The NSSTA issued a memorandum to all its members this week which stated that "NSSTA's mission is to promote the use of structured settlements to provide long-t...

It's pushing 100 degrees in the nation's capital, close to that out here on Long Island Sound, and the "The Hindert Chicken Meter" is on roast. Many in the structured settlement/settlement planning industry have for years   been subjected to Hindert's pontification about how factoring...

Cash Now Pusher Stone Street Capital has created a web page to try and position itself as being part of the structured settlement industry. Fakers eventually get exposed and here's an example with the impostor revealing language highlighted in blue.: "Insurance companies have multiple roles in ...

A member of the bar and a settlement planner has claimed in advertising legal and insurance services that he is "board certified" by the National Structured Settlement Trade Association and  that "he earned his "board certification " and the designation of Certified Str...

The shock topic of the week (and probably the next few weeks) has made it to the Settlement Channel and my friend Mark Wahlstrom offers interesting consideration for the structured settlement and settlement planning industry about what we can learn collectively and individually about Eliot Spizer's ...

If this doesn't make you angry about factoring company business practices or the so-called standards emlpoyed in the "best interest" process I don't know what will. "I want to know how JG Wentworth can get away with preying on people the way that they do. They are greedy money hungry ...

The Deal Flow media headline and teaser reads: "Factoring Companies Take Heat For Referral Fees Factoring companies offering referral fees to structured settlement consultants may not be violating any state insurance laws. But whether or not the practice is ethical is an argument that has divid...